pisto

pistää +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisto/,
• Rhymes: -isto
• Hyphenation^(key): pis‧to

pisto

1. sting, bite

   ampiaisen pisto ― wasp sting

2. prick, puncture, hole made by piercing or puncturing
3. (sewing) stitch
4. (fencing) thrust
5. (ball games) Synonym of pistosyöttö

• “pisto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Posti, posti

Frequentative of pīnsō (past participle pī̆stum).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːs.toː/, or IPA^(key): /ˈpis.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.to/,
• Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from pīnsō.

pī̆stō (present infinitive pī̆stāre, perfect active pī̆stāvī, supine pī̆stātum); first conjugation

1. to pound

• Italian: pestare
• Neapolitan: pistare
  • → Spanish: pistar
• Sicilian: pistari
• Venetan: pestar
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pistālia
  • → Albanian: bishtajë
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: pãstalji, pãstalje, pistalji, pistalje, spãtalji, spãtalje
    • Romanian: păstaie, păstare

• “pisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pisto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Neapolitan Wikipedia has an article on:

pisto

Wikipedia ^nap

From Late Latin pistus (“crushed”), from the Latin pīnsō (“to crush”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpistə/

pisto m (plural piste)

1. pesto (sauce)

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

pisto

Wikipedia ^es

Deverbal from pistar (“crush”), borrowed from Neapolitan pistare, from Vulgar Latin pistare, frequentative of Latin pīnsere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisto/
• Rhymes: -isto
• Syllabification: pis‧to

pisto m (plural pistos)

1. (slang, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) money

   Nos va a hacer falta pisto este mes.

   We're going to be short of money this month.

2. (slang, Mexico) hard liquor
3. (cooking) ratatouille (dish prepared with chopped vegetables, especially peppers, onion, eggplant, and zucchini, which is fried and mixed with tomato sauce and sometimes scrambled egg or a fried egg)

• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1985) “pistar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 566

• “pisto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10